Today, President Trump is meeting with Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. You will hear a lot from the establishment media, and maybe even some from the White House, about what an important “ally” Turkey is to the United States. Don’t believe it.

History tells us that there can be no real or lasting cooperation with Islamist regimes, yet Obama has regularly sided against secular forces and with Muslim Brotherhood-backed governments in the Mideast. Now things are coming to a crucial point in US - Turkey relations and the security of 50 to 90 nuclear weapons is in play.

Washington should not be isolated from the world, but it should stop attempting to forcibly transform the world. In Turkey the U.S. has found itself forced to embrace a man who cannot be trusted to support people’s liberty at home or fight Islamic radicalism abroad. So why is America still supporting him?